Sentence examples for testing of the anthrax from inspiring English sources

On Wednesday, DNA testing of the anthrax bacteria in Mrs. Lundgren's blood confirmed that she had the disease.

Early testing of the anthrax samples found in the offices of news organizations in New York and Florida showed that they were of the same strain, investigators said.

But had Dr. Ivins lived and faced trial for the anthrax killings, Thomas M. DeGonia II, one of his lawyers, said his legal team would have quickly tried to have the genetic testing of the anthrax strains thrown out of court as unreliable.

Late Wednesday, DNA sequencing tests of the anthrax bacteria that killed Mrs. Lundgren revealed that it was indistinguishable from the strain found in tainted letters sent to elected officials on Capitol Hill and the news media elsewhere.

The potency test for the anthrax vaccine currently licensed for human use in the United States (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed) involves the protection of actively immunized guinea pigs from a lethal challenge with a virulent strain of Bacillus anthracis.

Mr. Mueller, echoing scientific evidence that the bureau has released, said forensic testing of samples of the anthrax used in the attacks provided "clear identification" linking the strain to a flask in Dr. Ivins's laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., where he studied anthrax vaccines.

Mr. Holt said in a recent interview that his first doubts came after anthrax was found in his Congressional office in October 2001 but investigators never returned to conduct systematic testing to trace the path of the anthrax spores.

Though neither General Parker nor law enforcement officials would discuss the tests that were planned, some experts said the letter would certainly be closely checked for forensic evidence, like fingerprints or DNA, and its contents subjected to many of the same tests done on the anthrax sent to Senator Daschle.

Any inhalational anthrax outbreak starts with the dispersion of the anthrax spores.

B2 TEST OF THE HEALTH SYSTEM -- The anthrax outbreak in Florida, as well as at least one subsequent case in New York, showed that the nation's public health system can quickly detect suspicious illnesses that might be harbingers of bioterrorism.

The biotechnology company hopes to start human tests of an anthrax vaccine.